School of Architecture

Richview, University College Dublin 2010

INTERMEDIA*
REPRESENTATION OF A ROOM
INTENSIVE WORKSHOP WEEK Middle School Semester 1 2010/2011
*Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theater for example. Higgins described the tendency of the most interesting and best in the new art to cross the boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media that had not previously been considered for art forms, including computers. He noted that Samuel Taylor Coleridge first used the term intermedium.

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School of Architecture

Richview, University College Dublin 2010

INTERMEDIA* is a week of intensive workshops in which you will explore a particular space in your project through representation.
The workshop will develop your understanding of the role of representation in the design process. There will be 6 workshops running during the week, encompassing a variety of media and techniques. Through exploratory representation of the space, you are to consider how light enters the room and the connection the room has to adjoining internal & external spaces. You should also consider proportion, materiality and occupation of the space at a human scale. The finished piece of work will communicate these qualities. An exhibition and review of the finished pieces will be held at the end of the week.

Image: Louis I. Kahn. (American, born Estonia. 19011974). Drawings for City/2 Exhibition: Architecture Comes from the Making of a Room. 1971. Charcoal. 34 x 34 (86.4 x 86.4 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of Louis Kahn Caption: Architecture comes from the making of a Room. The Plan A society of rooms is a place good to live work learn. The Room is the place of the mind. In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. A room is not a room without natural light.

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School of Architecture

Richview, University College Dublin 2010

TIMETABLE Each workshop will be outlined at an introductory session in the Red Room on 18th October at 2.30pm.
A sign-up sheet will be pinned up in Studio until Friday 22nd October. Students will indicate a 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference of workshop. You might choose explore your project while learning a new skill or developing an existing one. Prior to the workshop commencing you will need to conduct any preparation work as set out by the workshop leaders and have aquired any necessary materials or other resources. The workshop will run from the 01-05 November, ending with an exhibition review at 5pm on Friday 5 November.

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School of Architecture

Richview, University College Dublin 2010

INTERMEDIA* STAFFING PROPOSAL

There are 6 concurrent workshops running during the week.Each workshop will have approximately 18 students. The proposal for staffing these is as follows: 6 x Workshop leader: 36 hours (18 Preparation/collation/marking +18 running workshop) There are currently 5 participating staff members leading workshops who have been assigned 36 hours each over the space of the semester to teach representation in the middle school. These hours have been assigned to the workshop week. Alice Clancy, Fiona Hughes, Wendy Barrett, James Rossa OHare and Chris Boyle (to be confirmed) One assignment of 36 hours is needed to run the sixth workshop - this will be shared by Kevin Donovan and Stephen Mulhall. 6 x Visiting Tutor: 9 hours: Skill training, assistance running workshop Due to the high number of students per workshop, and the aim to teach skills thoroughly, we are recommending the use of a visiting tutor with expertise in the relevant media/techniques being used. They will assist each workshop leader for 9 hours of the workshop. Proposed visiting tutors such as David Healy, Donal OHerlihy and Paul Durcan have proven their ability to teach and communicate representation skills effectively to students in previous workshops in the middle school. An assignment of 6x9 visiting tutor hours are needed to assist running the workshops. 6 x In-house Studio Staff: 6 hours: Studio assistance running workshop

To reinforce the connection between the studio project and the workshops, it is proposed that one member of studio staff assists and participates in each workshop during their 6 assigned hours in the week. This amounts to 6 in-house studio tutors.

To summarise the following are needed to enable the successful running of the INTERMEDIA* workshop week: 1 x workshop leader 6 x visiting tutor 1 x 36 hours 6 x 9 hours

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School of Architecture

Richview, University College Dublin 2010

INTERNAL TIMETABLE:
Monday 04th October

Draft A4 brief for each workshop to be circulated/commented among workshop staff.

2pm

Monday 11th October Monday 18th October

Final A4 brief for each workshop to be circulated to middle school studio staff.

2pm

Brief description of each workshop presented to middle school students. Sign-up preference sheet hung up in Studio.

2.30pm 3.00pm

Friday 22nd October

Sign-up preferences collated and distributed to workshop staff.

5pm

Monday 25th October

Workshop staff to contact participating students and indicate specific workshop details: location, timetable, materials/resources needed.

Monday 01st - Friday 05th November

Workshops run

Friday 05th November

Exhibition and review of work.

5pm Red Room